Free ebook: Murder in Ancient China
If your bank balance is on the ropes after the financial pounding we call The Holiday Season, have no fear. You can still enjoy your crime fiction thanks to the University of Chicago Press. Every month, the publisher issues a free ebook, and once in…
First look: The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths
Have a look at this early proof of Harry Bingham’s next Fiona Griffiths novel, from Orion. And what could be more startling – aside from that magenta lettering – than the title itself: The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths? Has Bingham killed off his main…
The Devil in Her Way
Transplanted New Yorker Maureen Coughlin is making her way in post-Katrina New Orleans, and is in her final days as a probationer in the NOPD. A series of random events lead her on to the trail of Bobby Scales, a big-time criminal who has managed…
Blood on a Saint
Last time we caught up with Father Burke and Monty Collins, they were back in the old country for Death at Christy Burke’s. Now they’ve returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and a woman’s claim to have seen the Virgin Mary in the churchyard of St…
A Land More Kind Than Home
Chosen by David Prestidge as his top crime book of 2013, A Land More Kind Than home was a debut novel for Wiley Cash. There is crime, and crime of the darkest kind, but for atmosphere, a sense of brooding evil disguised as piety, and…
The Preacher by Sander Jakobsen
The idea of the wicked preacher man is a powerful one in crime fiction and beyond – just think of Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter. However, The Preacher is not about a Bible-thumping baddie. Thorkild Christensen, the unassuming vicar of Roslinge in Denmark,…
Interview: Eva Dolan
On 2 January, Eva Dolan’s first novel will be released by Harvill Secker. It’s big news for the Essex-based author, and for Crime Fiction Lover. For over two years, she’s been a contributor here on the site as LoiteringWithIntent, and all the while she’s been…